204 ARACHNOIDEA. 



CASE Ophiodes ophiophilus (^MuU., Nov. Aet. Nat. Cuv. 1831).— 31. Enlarged 



J^^^- sketch of ditto, copied from Midler's figure. 



No. 31. ^ 



A species from South Africa which was found upon captive 

 snakes. The colour of its body is pale bluish green like 

 turquoise. 



j<fos. Ophiodes Gervaisii {Lticas, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847). — 32. Enlarged sketch 

 32, 33. of male of ditto ; 33. Ditto of female. 



This was found under the scales of the boa constrictor. 



No. 34. Ophiodes gracilentus {Lucas ^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1846). — 34. Enlarged 

 sketch of ditto. 



This species has also been described by M. Lucas from living 

 specimens feiken on the Python Sebse, on which it fixes itself in 

 the intervals between the ventral scales, which it resembles in 

 colour, its abdomen being yellowish, and head and thorax 

 brownish yellow. 



Nos. Ophiodes flavomaculatus {Lncas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1846). — 35. Enlarged 

 35, 36. sketch of ditto ; 36. Sketch of Python Sebae on which it was found. 



M. Lucas says that this 

 species is very agile, and ap- 

 pears to be rare. He " never 

 met with any but a few indi- 

 viduals that he found living 

 and fixed between the scales 

 of a boa constrictor newly 

 anived from Senegal." As 

 the boa constrictor is a South 

 American species, and does 

 ^ . not occur in Africa, we must 



Ophiodes flavomaculatus. Magnified and natural size. 



read python instead of boa 

 constrictor, for the python is the only large serpent that occurs in 

 West Africa, where it represents the boa. 



